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. 2023 Oct 12;12:100348. doi: 10.1016/j.rcsop.2023.100348

Table 2.

Drug-related problem characteristics.

Author/Year and Country Method of classify DRPs Most common drugs Overall incidence
Corsonello et al., 2005 15

Italy
231 (10.2% of all patients)
ADR identified
Varghese et al., 2007 16

USA
Establish operational definitions Specific drug class study, Antihyperglycemic (no specific drug name mentioned) Of the 484 hypoglycemic episodes, 46.9% occurred in patients with type 2 DM,
Indriani et al., 2010 17

Indonesia
Drug Information Handbook (DIH) edition 14
MIMS Indonesia edition 72,007/2008
Drug Interaction Facts (DIF)
ISO Indonesia volume 442,009/2010
Informatory Obat Indonesia (IONI) 2000.
DRPs drug interactions occur at 29%, ADR of 7%, 14% needed medication, and do not need drugs amounted to 7%
Okayasu et al., 2012 18

Japan
Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (CTCAE version 4.0) Specific drug study (metformin) The overall incidence of diarrhea observed was 26.7% (27 of 101 patients)
Kosmalski et al., 2012 19

Poland
Specific drug study (metformin) 275 patients were found to be contraindicated and despite this 120 of them were using this medication
3 patients reported moderate dyspepsia
Inamdar et al., 2016 20

India
PCNE Antihypertensives (108)- DDI, DWI
Antidiabetics (96)- metformin + metoprolol/rabeprozol/insulin DDI /ADR
Antibiotics (41)
Anti-emetics (29)
Antiplatelets (36)
364 DRPs were identified in all 123 study subjects.
Herman et al., 2016 21

Indonesia
Start-Stopp criteria 15 (30%) of 50 patients identified with inappropriate use of drug
Zazuli et al., 2017 22

Indonesia
American Diabetes Association. Standards of medical care in diabetes—2015
Consensus guidelines on the management and prevention of type II diabetes mellitus in Indonesia 2015
Drug Information Handbook 2011–2012. 20th
261 DRPs were identified
Hidayati et al., 2018 23

Indonesia
Stockley 2008; Stockley 2010
Drug interaction book
Drug interaction journal study on T2DM patient with hyperlipidemia
Metformin + simvastatin 3 Drug interaction of metformin with simvastatin was found in 3 people (6.12%)
Maharani et al., 2018 24

Indonesia
Pharmacotherapy A Pathophysiologic Approach, 7th edition
Drug Information Handbook, 17th edition
Geriatric Dosage Handbook 2005
Journal of Pharmacy of Clinic
MIMS
ISO 2014
Micromedex
PCNE
Ranitidine, omeprazole with/without sucralfate or rebamipide
Antibiotics, ACE inhibitor- DDI hypo/hyperglycemia
166 DRPs were identified from 299 drug treatments obtained for 26 patients
Salam et al., 2018 25

Indonesia
PCNE 100% potential problems and 35,3% problem manifestations consisting of adverse drug reactions, non-optimal treatment effects, untreated indications, and treatment unnecessary
Siregar et al., 2018 26

Indonesia
DRPs in the category of drug interactions in theory was potentially 220 times (90%).
18 cases of drug doses too low and 18 cases of drug doses too high.
Hussain et al., 2019 27

India
Helper Strand classification
Lexicomp
Micromedex
Aspirin, clopidogrel, warfarin, atorvastatin and some drugs acting on the CNS- DDI
Antihypertensives- ADR
99 patients (81%) experience DDI
Indriani et al., 2019 28

Indonesia
PCNE
American Standards of Medical Care in Diabetes 2018
Drug Interaction
Drug Information Handbook
Indonesian Endocrinology Society
Most common DRPS is drug interactions that is 94.62%
Nzayisenga et al., 2019 29

Africa
PCNE Antihypertensive (270/385)
Antidiabetics (267/385)

Mainly drug/dose selection
The prevalence of DRPs was 81.29% (313/385)
Acharya et al., 2020
30
India
Pharmaceutical Care Network Europe (PCNE) classification
Helper Strand classification
Micromedex
Medscape
Lexicomp
Drugs.com
Metformin + ciprofloxacin 2
Insulin
226 DRPs with an average of 0.91 DRP per patient
Inamdar et al., 2020 31

India
PCNE Metformin + Metoprolol 64 (33.16%)
Metformin + Ranitidine 51 (26.42%)
278 DRPs were identified after assessing 107 study
Sharma et al., 2020 32

India
Beers Criteria 2019 Short-acting insulin
Glimepiride
PPI- PIM
Clonazepam
58 (38.7%) patients were prescribed at least one PIM, 37 (24.7%) were prescribed two PIMs, and 16 (10.7%) were prescribed ≥ three PIMs
Mader et al., 2022 33

Austria
No reference (survey study from patient perspective) 25% of patients already suffered at least one drug error, whereby prescribing a wrong dose seemed to be the most common type of error
Nigussie et al., 2022 34

Pakistan
Cipolle's DRP classification Biguanides (64)
Insulin (61)
The overall prevalence of inappropriate anti-diabetic medication therapy was 70.3%